How to Identify your Crutch Words and Highlight Your Style Everybody has a distinct writing style. Continue Reading →
Best Indie Author Tweets of 2013 Wondering if you missed any good tweets this year? Continue Reading →
Guest Post from M. Elias Keller: Serious Research Tips for Serious Fiction Writers Research. Continue Reading →
How to Make Your Action Sequences POP! If you’ve spent any time working on your writing with other authors, taking writing classes, or even reading books on writing, you’ve probably come across the concept of “show, don’t tell.” This directive sounds easy, doesn’t it? Continue Reading →
9 Words and Phrases to Delete From Your Writing When authors use “filler” words—words that slow the pace, add unnecessary emphasis, add wordiness, etc.—it can be detrimental to the readers’ experience! Continue Reading →
Our List of Sneaky Words that Spellcheck Doesn’t Find It is a truth universally acknowledged that indie authors in possession of a good book must be in want of an editor. Continue Reading →
Guest Post from Juliet Philip: The Writing Mojo: Why do YOU Write? Do you write to send a message to an audience? Continue Reading →
TED Talks That Will Inspire Your Writing If you haven’t unintentionally spent three hours watching TED Talks online, that’s about to change. Continue Reading →
Our Favorite Online Resources for Writing Mechanics Since it’s NaNo (National Novel Writing Month), the online writing community is abuzz with endless talk of that’s right, you guessed it, writing. Just this morning, we came across this blog by the amazing author Tex Thompson. Continue Reading →
How to Make Your Writing More Authentic The most gut-wrenching criticism that you could receive is that your story or characters do not feel ‘real’ or ‘authentic’. Continue Reading →
